atrocities

Personal narratives of Christians, Gypsies, deaf people, homosexuals, and blacks who suffered at the hands of the Nazis before and during World War II.

Provides background information on the Bosnian conflict and presents the controversies surrounding the event, and offers first-person narratives from people who lived through or were impacted by the event.

Oskar Schindler uses Jews to start a factory in Poland during the war. He witnesses the horrors endured by the Jews, and starts to save them.

Discusses the five weeks of large-scale killings that followed Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland, examining the use of ethnic cleansing and political murder at this stage, the ways the invasion shaped later Nazi actions, and the mentality of the officers and soldiers who committed mass murder and atrocities in Poland.

Tells how Nazi war criminals emigrated to America under assumed identities and now live quiet, prosperous lives among us.

Combines a fictional narrative, in which Adam recounts his experiences and survival of the Auschwitz concentration camp, with excerpts of actual testimony from the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial of 1963-65 made by Dr. Victor Capesius--who was assigned to be a "sorter" of new arrivals to the concentration camp--and historical research.

Discusses the military policy of rape for the purpose of genocide by members of the Yugoslav Army and the Bosnian Serb military, focusing on the peculiar logic of pregnancy-aimed rape; and calls for prosecution of the perpetrators as a crime of biological warfare.

An account of how deeply Nazi ideology penetrated the army sheds new light on how deeply it penetrated the nation.

Transcribes sessions from a conference discussing the massacre at My Lai on March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam Conflict in which 504 Vietnamese civilians were killed by American forces.

Janis Karpinski, the first female general to command American troops in a combat zone, recounts the events surrounding the abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq that ruined her career.